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That last post spot accidentally got chopped in half! I was part way through giving a description. continued.... Little Hills Pre-School - this is an on-site crèche, which caters for 72 community children, aged 3-6, which includes a school readiness programme. This was extremely busy and I am fortunate that I am used to looking after small children. There are minimal supplies and teaching equipment so I had to be fairly inventive with teaching and over-exuberant child control methods. Village Training Centre - there is a computer lab and classrooms for a wide variety of professional and life skills training. Hunger alleviation programme – this includes packing and providing and delivering food parcels to families in crisis, daily feeding at the nearby HIV clinic and the local high school, as well as cultivating a community garden. Community distribution centre – ICV acts as a distribution centre for donations of clothing, food and other resources from multiple places as they re...
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At the orphanage

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In the countryside north of Hillcrest...   The Children’s Village was set up in 2002 in the Valley of a Thousand Hills, 1 hour north of Durban, South Africa. Currently they house 50 vulnerable children, ranging from 18 months to 18 years of age – all of whom who have lost one or both of their parents to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Personal projects: -        To support the life of the village, house mothers and contribute to the care, education and development of the children -        To revisit the Hillcrest AIDS centre -        To help with clear up of The White House community care centre at IKwaNyusa. -    To street medicine in action in downtown Durban   The children, residential staff and volunteers all live on a secure 12 acre campus near the communities of Botha’s Hill, KwaNyusa and Embo – about 3...
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Dr Paul Grant return to South Africa

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It has been 5 years since I was last here - time has flown without even realising! Check out the previous journey here; http://www.youngdiabetologists.org.uk/about/blog/182-cohsasa and dr paul grant http://www.youngdiabetologists.org.uk/about/blog/188-diabetesdurban This time I was returning with the international volunteer network, a charity that specializes in short periods of volunteering for individuals in both South Africa and South America. Given that I had been to KwaZulu Natal before I thought that it would be a good opportunity to spend some time back in the same area as last time, catch up with Diabetes Durban, the Hillcrest AIDS centre and work on other projects. The background training and development necessary for my placement began in October and I am glad that I was so well prepared by Karen Patten and co. (especially with the language skills). My motivations for fundraising and volunteering were the opportunity to provide and ma...
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